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Everyone, Someone.
It's all relative.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Switching costs.
Shoot.
Distraction.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The first step is the steepest.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
View reading as an investment.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
NFTs, explained.
Realize.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Think of many things; do one.
Perspective.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The obstacle is the way.
Talk is cheap.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
80:20
Do less, do more.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Slow down.
Mindset vs. Mind set
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Vision
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Failure = feedback.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
No, it took me my whole life.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Done is better than perfect.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Bull, Bear, Builder.